In efforts to keep the community updated of current forums issues and problems, I have started an Known Issue Announcement that I'll keep updated as problems are reported and are being investigated. Hopefully you'll find this useful and will check the announcement for updates!
Thanks!
Alicia
Program Manager, Server and Tools Online Engineering Live Services Team
I do however have a comment about the implementation of Announcements in the forum.
The blue subject suggests that the title is a link, like the title of a post (click takes you to thread view). But actually the functionality of the Announcement click is like invoking preview for a post. And to collapse the announcement you need to click this blue "link" again, which is totally non-intuitive.
It would be much clearer if there were a "view button" like the preview button for a post. In fact an Announcement could be a special kind of post that you cannot reply to, and which does not have a thread view.